Operations & Maintenance
Weak Market Conditions Impact PGS’ Performance in Q2
Petroleum Geo-Services’ (PGS) marine contract revenues and margin were negatively impacted by the weak market conditions and slightly more idle time than expected in the quarter. The company reported revenues of $255.8 million, compared to $337.0 million in Q2 2014. In Q2 2015, revenues for PGS decr
Caley IWOCS System Completes Manifold Tests
A portable Intervention Work Over Control System (IWOCS) deployment system developed by Caley Ocean Systems has been used to successfully test the manifold functions on four deepwater subsea manifolds post installation. Deployed from a vessel of opportunity, the IWOCS deployment system enabled the s
VBMS Repairs Cable at Trianel Windpark Borkum Phase 2
VBMS completed the repair of an inter-array cable at Trianel Windpark Borkum phase 2. The scope of work included the removal of the defective cable, and installation, burial, terminations and testing of a replacement cable. The total operation took less than 48 hours, the company said. The works wer
Global Marine Nets Subsea 7 Contract in North Sea
Global Marine secured a contract to provide personnel and equipment that will support the delivery of a submarine fibre optic link between North Sea platforms on behalf of client, Subsea 7, and end user BP. Global Marine will be providing jointing personnel to work with Subsea 7 in delivering platfo
FMC Technologies Posts Revenue Drop
FMC Technologies reported second quarter 2015 revenue of $1.7 billion, down 15 percent from the prior-year quarter. The revenue dropped primarily due to the continued decline in the North American land market and its severe impact on Surface Technologies segment revenue, FMC said. Diluted earnings
Ireland: Echidna Seismic Survey Complete
Searcher Seismic in cooperation with MAGE, completed acquisition of the Echidna Regional Broadband 2D seismic survey covering the Porcupine & Slyne Basins and the Goban Spur offshore Ireland. The Echidna survey is comprised of approximately 9,100 km of high quality, long-offset broadband 2D seismic
Retry of Sabella’s D10 Cable Connection
After a delay in making a final cable connection of the D10 tidal turbine off Ushant island, Sabella announced that it will retry the connection next week. Last time the company had to suspend the operation due to incompatibility of MV Palembang vessel to make the connection. To avoid the equipment
DeepOcean to Install Cables for Bligh Bank Phase II
DeepOcean 1 UK Ltd., a subsidiary of DeepOcean Group, has been awarded the inter array cable installation contract for the Bligh Bank Phase II Offshore Wind Farm in Belgium. Nobelwind NV is developing the Bligh Bank Phase II Offshore Wind Farm with fifty 3.3MW wind turbines offshore Belgium, with an
Cefas SmartBuoy clocks 30.000 days of deployment
SmartBuoy, an integrated marine data acquisition platform developed and operated by the Centre for Environment Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas), has clocked 30.000 cumulative days of deployment in its 15th year of operation. The buoy was introduced in 2000, and deployed around the UK for 15
New Cable Capacity Record for Alcatel-Lucent and Apollo
Apollo and Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks (ASN) have successfully demonstrated a capacity of 8 terabits-per-second (Tbit/s) of data per fiber pair on the Apollo South system, which connects France to the United States. For the demonstration ASN used its current generation 1620 Light Manager subma
Prysmian Cables for Normandie 1 Link
Prysmian has been awarded a new contract by Jersey Electricity (UK) for the “Normandie 1” project to provide electricity to Jersey in the Channel Islands from the French mainland. The project involves the turn-key supply and installation of a High Voltage Alternate Current (HVAC) cable connection fr
Fugro Secures Fehmarnbelt Geotechnical Survey
Fugro has been awarded the Geotechnical Verification Investigations 2015 programme by Femern, owner of the Fehmarnbelt Fixed Link project. The planned 18 kilometre-long immersed tunnel will connect Denmark and Germany as part of the Scandinavian-Mediterranean corridor, one of the EU’s nine priority
VBMS Bags Normandie 1 Interconnector Setup Gig
VBMS has been awarded a contract by Jersey Electricity for the installation of an interconnector between Jersey, the largest Channel Island, and France. The 28-kilometre 90kV HVAC cable, part of Channel Island Electricity Grid (CIEG), will connect both grids in order to improve the electricity suppl
Sabella to retry cable connection end of July
Sabella will retry the cable connection of its D10 tidal turbine with Ushant island, France, next week. After delaying the cable connection of the turbine due to unsuitable safety conditions for the equipment, Sabella confirmed to Tidal Energy Today that it will retry the cable connection operation